On Jul 28, 2011, at 11:03 AM, John Casey wrote: > > > On 7/28/11 10:43 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >> On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: >> >>> The reason why no one committed to Aether beside yourself is partly that it >>> requires to sign some CLA which only unilaterally grants rights (as we can >>> certainly see now!). >> >> Have you read the Sonatype CLA? The contributor keeps retains copyright and >> Sonatype is granted the license. Much the same way the Apache or Eclipse >> CLAs work. We changed that a long time ago when Brett pointed it out. >> Additionally Hervé and Kristian signed the CLA. It's not just Sonatype >> employees. > > So you had to get approval from all contributors before switching to EPl-only?
Sonatype is granted perpetual rights which includes relicensing. But Hervé and Kristian are free do to whatever with their contributions i.e. push them into a fork of Aether or Sisu. I believe that we changed the contributor gets perpetual rights to Sonatype gets perpetual rights after most/all of their contributions but if they wanted to take their code and do whatever with it we'd grant it back regardless of the date of the license change. > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ... -- Thoreau
